2018 Individual Seed Projects
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Radiology and of Bioengineering
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Radiology and of Bioengineering
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Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Natural Science and Professor, by courtesy, of Physics
Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Statistics
Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics
Clinical Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology - Maternal Fetal Medicine
Samantha Do, MD
Fellow, Medicine
Clinical Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology - Maternal Fetal Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Background
- Women are vulnerable to infection in the peripartum period. Outside of pregnancy, markers such as lactate and procalcitonin are used to guide sepsis diagnosis and assess response to treatment. Normal levels of sepsis biomarkers in the peripartum period have not yet been determined. By establishing normal and elevated levels of sepsis markers in the peripartum period, the ability to rapidly diagnose severe maternal infections may greatly improve.
Objectives
- Compare lactate and procalcitonin levels of infected to non-infected women in the peripartum period.
- Establish preliminary data for normal levels of lactate and procalcitonin in pregnant women in the peripartum period.
Study design
- Compare sepsis marker levels between 30 women with intraamniotic infection to 30 women without infection at 3 time points: the start of labor, immediately following delivery and 1 day postpartum.
Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Radiology (Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford)
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics
Andrew Lipchik
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Professor of Neurology and, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Major Laboratories and Clinical Translational Neurosciences Incubator) and of Genetics
Thalia Robakis
Professor of Urology and, by courtesy, of Obstetrics and Gynecology
NICU Nurses Professor and Professor (Research), by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health and of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Maternal Fetal Medicine)
Nathan Itoga
Professor (Research) of Surgery (Surgery Policy Improvement Research and Education Center) and, by courtesy, of Health Policy
The goal of our, “Improving Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Detection and Screening” study is to model the cost-effectiveness of an AAA early detection screening program initiated in 2007. Specifically, the VA Healthcare System started an initiative to screen all eligible patients for AAAs with a screening ultrasound. We have the opportunity to evaluate the effects of this screening program on cost and outcomes ~10 years pre- and post-screening to develop an early detection model.
Professor of Health Policy and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases)
Kathryn Phillips, PhD
Professor, Clinical Pharmacy
University of California, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco
Sanjay Basu
Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Management Science and Engineering
Bing Professor of Human Biology, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Professor, by courtesy, of Economics
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Senior Fellow at the Stanford
Institute for Economic Policy
Research and, by courtesy, at the
Freeman Spogli Institute and
Professor, by courtesy, of
Health Research and Policy
and of Economics
Senior Fellow at the Stanford
Institute for Economic Policy
Research and, by courtesy, at the
Freeman Spogli Institute and
Professor, by courtesy, of
Health Research and Policy
and of Economics